1. to free (an estate) from entail; to break the legal restrictions on the inheritance of property
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British

Examples

• The landowner decided to disentail the estate so his children could sell it freely.
• In the 18th century, many aristocrats sought to disentail their properties to raise capital.
• Once the entail was broken, the heir was able to disentail the land and mortgage it.
• The lawyer advised the family to disentail the ancestral home to modernize its ownership structure.